Posts Tagged ‘Wireless’

“Method of an Apparatus for Controlling Mechanism of Moving Vehicle or Vehicles” or what we now know today as remote control. A device most people use daily was not only theorized but developed back in 1893 by Nikola Tesla. Here is his design for a wireless radio-controlled ship, Tesla called them “Teleautomatons”

He demonstrated the system to the Navy by blowing up a target with one of his “Teleautomatons” remotely. But due to the military being in the back pocket of Tesla’s rival “Thomas Edison” they never bought on to the system.Today the military is now moving almost completely in the direction that Tesla envisioned over 100 years ago with their development and use of UCAV unmanned vehicles.

Proportionately the model matches the illustration. A lot of work still needs to be done with the windows and other features… something is missing. I’m thinking because there is not much information on the completed look of the tower save for this World Wireless promo art. I can take some artistic license I’ll have to look up window treatments from that era.

This is an early render of Tesla’s“Wardenclyffe broadcasting Tower“ Due to funding this tower was never completed and eventually the wooden frame was destroyed. The architect W.D. Crow is long dead. So no one knows exactly what this tower would have looked like. All that I can find on the tower are some old photos of the internal frame and some B&W concept artwork. I’m posting this now to get some input as to what the outer walls would have looked like? Could it have been made out of brick with a wooden frame similar to the lab at Wardenclyffe built by Stanford White that still stands today?

There are other images but basically this is all I can find online for the tower.

If anyone has any high resolution images of Tesla’s Wardenclyffe tower project I would like to know about it?
Thanks.